Empire Outposts.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 259, 18 October 1916, Page 5

Empire Outposts.

AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED. (Received 18, 10.40 a.m.) [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE aSSN. 1 Melbourne, Oct. 18. One hundred and fifty wounded New Zealanders have arrived here. They were heartily welcomed. NOTES FROM VARIOUS STATES [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSN.] (Received 18, 10.40 a.m.) It is officially announced in Western Australia that all civil servants who at any time have been subjects of an alien enemy nation have been retired.

THE DOMINION. REINFORCEMENTS. SHORTAGE FOR THE TWENTYSECONDS. Christchurch, Oct. 17. There is a serious shortage in the Canterbury quota of the Twentysecond Reinforcements now being mobilised. In all 699 men are required and only 403 have been secured. The North Canterbury quota left for camp to-night 46 short. RECRUITING OFFICER’S WARNING. Up to date 1607 men only have attested for the draft mobilising this, week, the 22nd Reinforcements. This means a serious shortage, the draft being so far 1200 men under strength. “It should be noted,” said a recruiting officer to a press representative yesterday, “that this draft will very probably be the last chance that men will have of getting into a purely voluntary draft, as in all likelihood compulsion will have to be resorted to to complete the next draft. If, therefore, men want to get in with a purely volunteer draft they should go into camp With the 22nd Reinforcements this week. Recruiting committees equid do good work by going into the highways and byways and urging the men to volunteer, instead of sitting at a table waiting for the men to come to them.”

The Recruiting Board have decided that enlistments shall now be confined to the two drafts in hand. Men will no longer be allowed to enlist for three months ahead, onlj T for two months. SOME PERSONAL NOTES. Gunner-driver G. J. Thornton, of the Seventh Reinforcements, and son of Mr. T. M. Thornton, of Napier, was wounded in France on October Ist. Captain E. S. Harston, of Napier who was Adjutant to the Wellington battaUon under the late Colonel Malone at Gallipoli and who has been comanding officer of the Welling West Coast (Wanganui) Company, since joining the New Zealand Forces in France, has been invalided home to England, suffering from an attack of gastritus. Rifleman R. S. Marfin, son of Mr. D. A. Martin, Westshore, has been severely wounded in France, but is now progressing favourably in hospital, Birmingham. Rifleman Lennox Pirie, son of Mr R. D. Pirie, Napier, is returning invalided to New Zealand by the Marama.

VARIOUS FUNDS. NAPIER. The following donations have been received at Napier:— Women’s National Reserve. —Per Mrs. D. L. Smart: Mrs. F. H. White (Omarunui) £5. Equipment Fund. —Per Mrs. J. V. Brown: Mrs. L. E. Ward, two pairs mittens; Mrs T. H. Lowry, four top shirts, one under flannel; Mrs. Macfarlane, one balavlava; Mrs. Edgar, 2 pairs socks, balaclava; from wool supplies by Mrs. J. H. Coleman, two pairs mittens, nine pairs socks; Miss White, Porangahau, two balaclavas.